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JUN.10.2013 9 :14AM BUSINESS CONNECTION NO.020 P.2 <br />Division of Reclamation, June 7, 2013 <br />Mining and Safety <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Rm . 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />RE: Application No. M2013028 <br />OBJECTION <br />As set forth below, I object to the issuance of any <br />mining permit until the applicant provides greeter <br />clarity with respect to the manner, methods and <br />assurances that mining operations and reclamation <br />efforts will not permit the release of environmentally <br />harmful materials to the - residential neighborhood <br />(Valley of the Sun) immediately below the mining site. <br />1. Mine Site Location: The mine is located at <br />12,300' up the eastern face of Pennsylvania Mountain, a <br />Thirteener located in Park County due west of :Highway 9 <br />between alma and Fairplay, CO. Immediately below the <br />mine site is a large, expansive conifer forest where <br />the valley of the Sun (VOS) residential community is <br />located. Pennsylvania Mountain slopes west to east <br />above VOS with numerous natural drainage creeks, <br />streams and rivulets coursing off the face of the <br />mountain through VOS and feeding the hundreds of small <br />and large ponds between the summit of Pennsylvania and <br />Highway 9. A considerable portion of this natural <br />drainage flows into the Middle Fork of the South Platte <br />River which, in the area under consideration, flows <br />north to south along the western edge of Highway 9. <br />2. The mine site has not been surveyed (App. p. 12 ) <br />Consequently, there is no way to know where water used <br />in this mining operation will flow and what precautions <br />